Alex's Insane 2021 Home Network Upgrade & Tour!! 🔥

[Music] so welcome to this pretty mental video today we're going to be looking at all of this [Music] so every year on tech flow so far we've done some sort of network upgrades to my home which is where we are now in the kitchen this is no exception we've got the unified dream machine here which is pretty much the nerdiest home router you can buy behind that we've also got ubiquiti's redundant power system which we're going to be installing and taking a look at and then over on the other side we have a plethora of access points from this 1 500 pound beast which we're going to put on the roof of my house and some little baby switches and some access points for in the house so without further ado let's get into all these boxes [Music] okay guys so i'm gonna do my best to try and explain this part by part piece by piece so you know what is going on down here we've got three pieces of brand new hardware from ubiquity right down here we've got what's called a ups a redundant power supply so what this is gonna do is it's actually gonna power our devices like our dream machine which we'll get onto next and our switch if the power goes out it will keep these devices running which is great because let's say we've got security cameras connected to our switch the power goes out our security is gonna keep running second here like i've said we've got the udm pro or the ubiquity dream machine that is a pretty cool name for a router if i do say so myself and it's a pretty cool router we're going to install it in this video above that we've got one of ubiquity's p.o.e switches now they make numerous switches some inexpensive that don't have poe and some a little bit more expensive that do like the one we've got here now pretty much basis of poe means that you can plug things into this switch like this wireless access point here or some cameras some cctv cameras and it will as well as transfer data power the device which is great because one cable you've got power and data [Music] so via this cable here i've plugged my laptop into this network and it's asking me to configure all of this so i'm going to give the udm a name udm pro there we go we'll go next and now i'm going to do is sign into my ubiquity account so i can access all of this stuff from the cloud which means yes i've got access to my router switches absolutely everything to do with ubiquiti no matter where i am in the world with an internet connection so next up the udm pro has taken a speed test of my internet to this house which as you can see is 304 megabytes down and 54 megabytes up with an eight milliseconds ping now the udm needs to know this because what it's going to do is something very clever because it knows the speed it can say ah okay if one device is using 300 meg but alex downstairs is wanting to load a 4k youtube video on the tv or something and it's lagging well because the router actually knows what speeds we're getting to the house it can go ahead and manage what devices and where the speed is going to so not one device hogs the whole network does that make sense now as you'll see with my previous ubiquiti setup that's currently still running in my rack at the moment soon to be replaced by all of this in this video you'll see that there is a device in there called the cloud key now what that device does is it manages all of these devices so things like the switches and the access points and it also manages all of the security like all of the recording of all of the cctv cameras now the udm pro or the dream machine has the cloud key and the router built into one device so you've seen me earlier in the video put a hard drive in here or an ssd that's because all of the cameras are going to record to that ssd and right here is the screen where i can go ahead and choose to configure the network or go into the protect side of things and we actually get a sneak preview here of some things that ubiquity are working on like some access equipment and some voip phones now these thick cables look very very official and that's because they are essentially over this side we've got our normal power cables which are powering our dream machine and our switch at the moment but these big thick ones are connecting our switch dream machine to this redundant power source so now technically if i was to pull the plug on one of these items it should stay on i have now disconnected the power from the switch but as you can see it stayed on our access point is on because it's being powered by the redundant power system so at least we know that that's all working okay well now this is all set up i need to get it moved into my rack up there which means taking out some of the older gear but we're not going to take out all of the older gear i want to take you guys through my house right now and show you some of the gear that i'm going to be keeping so whilst everything is updating this is the uap flex hd the sort of pole shaped access point which i've set up over there as you guys know and i'll put links to all this in the description ubiquity make a plethora of access points one of which i've already got set up in my office but there's a problem with it and this what ubiquity have sent me is gonna sort that these are some face plate covers for the ubiquity access points and here is our access point so now that should just go over there oh that is so much better this is a tiny little poe powered switch which we've got which we're going to install later in this video behind my desk now just down here we have another network switch from unified this is going to be staying here this is for all of the devices that are in my rack in the kitchen and now the last piece to my already built unified network is this 60 watt power switch that actually lives in my garage ubiquiti have sent out this which is a little bit mental this is called the unifi industrial switch and i think it's more suited for a place like this a garage somewhere industry whoa look how cool this is i didn't think this was gonna be as big as it is and it's so heavy okay full metal jacket on this we've got a unify or ubiquity logo on the top there i assume all this is for heat dissipation and then where's all of our ports are they under here oh look at that absolute beast usw industrial switch and as you guys can see i've also turned my garage into a little bit more of a room than a garage so ubiquity have also sent me a nano hd access point which can live in here and be powered by that industrial switch so we've got wi-fi access out here [Music] so with my previous network explained to you guys it's time to take all of this new gear up to the server rack which if you didn't know is up here [Music] okay so one thing i would just like to point out is that these power cables that connect the rps to the devices like the dream machine and the switch they're absolutely massive i don't know if my rack is going to be deep enough for how thick these cables come out the back of this [Music] okay so here we are this is my brand new rack i hope you guys like it if we try and remember what it was like here before i have my old ups just sort of sat down here powering everything the whole rack itself was just a mess i had cables terminated going into the switch there wasn't a patch panel inside there was a shelf that had my nas unit sat on it and here in the uk i've actually got my rack in the loft but for this networking equipment it can easily reach 80 degrees and still be fine and it gets nowhere near that in a uk loft so i'm not worried about this anyway i managed to figure out where all of the cables go into my house came down here and patched them all into this patch panel so as you can see well i've got all of the cables that go to the numerous locations around the house this little blue cable here is fibre optic that goes down to a switch that's in my cupboard we've got the redundant power supply at the bottom the dream machine in the middle and then obviously the switch on the top this looks so much better than it did before so you can see here now this is all booted up these little screens just doing their thing but now back on track because the rps is plugged into my ups if i was to power cycle this rack now as you can see psu failure but everything else is staying on like it's staying on everything is still running all of my cameras are still recording which is the main thing really the security i'm not bothered about having the wi-fi off if there's a power outage i just want to keep my cameras recording and as you can see we're all running pretty cool at the moment this yeah this is awesome okay so it is now the next day because quite honestly we were filming all day yesterday doing the rack and everything and it just took ages the next day now and we're gonna carry on the network tour so essentially we're now in my boiler room upstairs this is an eight port switch from ubiquiti this has been here since as long as i can remember this is where the other side of that fiber cable goes if you remember there's a fiber cable in the rack that feeds this switch here now i call this switch my smart switch because on this shelf i have things like my philips hue uh hub here i have my somfy hub which actually controls my smart blinds and then i've actually got the fabarro home center here which controls all of my smart plugs i've done a video on that so i'll put a link to it and in the card there if you want to watch it here i have a ubiquity access point now you may be thinking alex why have you got so many access points in the house this one has one job and one job only and that is to broadcast a wireless network that is for all of the smart lights so all of my lifx lights and it also has a smart network on here for things like google homes which run on five gigahertz like things like chromecasts for 4k streaming different things like that and the nas i actually moved to up here it's now plugged into this switch okay so this is the flex hd a really cool looking access point it does look kind of different i suppose a lot of ubiquiti's access points look different though because this one in here the one that we're going to replacing this one with is called the in-wall now we've got one of these in my office this used to be in the wall because it used to be on the other side of this wall but i actually had some stuff done to this kitchen so this is no longer fit for purpose but this is just going to plug in there like that that bottom piece goes on and then this can just sit on this counter like that now this access point comes with wall mounts and stuff but for my installation it literally just wants to sit here like that and then this cable you guessed it goes off to the rack that we've just patched in up there okay so this is really kind of funky we're going to be putting that huge antenna on my roof in a little while but this is a brand new switch from ubiquiti it's going to be my brand new office switch look how small this thing is oh it's even smaller than i thought look at that this is called the flex mini and one of the reasons why i really like this is because it's powered by usbc or poe in now obviously the switch that we installed in the rack has poe all the ports around my house are plugged into that switch in the rack so no matter where i plug this in my house i've got four extra ethernet ports so i'm actually buzzing about this i might velcro it to the back of my computer because it is so small but if i take out this ethernet cable which is patched up into the rack in the loft plug it into here it should provide poe power to power the switch which it is it's come on and now i can take this small little patch lead plug into there plug into the computer and now my computer has lan access and internet access and i've also got three spare ports for other devices so the flex mini has appeared in unify we can go ahead and click on adopt over here to adopt it i'm gonna click on this give it a rename i'm gonna call it office switch and here even though this switch is so small you can clearly see what is plugged in so we've got port number two and port number one as the uplink of my office computer and i think this is a yeah you can actually go ahead and apply vlans to all of these ports on this tiny little switch which is insane really so it's adopted and it works fine so i've just finished installing this nano hd on the roof and now i'm applying one of the skins to it so it doesn't look like a boring old access point it now looks like a marble finish which is kind of nice that is now being powered by the industrial switch that we have just put on the wall over here this thing looks the absolute business super super chuffed with it it's actually doing a few things this switch for me as you can see there's two ethernet ports here one of them that goes up to the rack up in the loft and one of them that actually goes back out into the kitchen so the things in the kitchen actually go to this switch and then up to the rack and then out to the internet so this is kind of a hop for me and this switch with its poe is also powering a couple of cameras as well as the access point in here got this little flex camera right here which is for my garage and then there's another camera on the outside of this wall that it's powering for my garden [Music] okay so it's a few days later as you can see i've got the gopro strapped to my chest it's time to end this video by putting this monstrous ap on my roof now this is called the bass station xg from ubiquity and this is actually a little bit overkill it's completely designed for things like stadiums football stadiums densely packed areas this is an absolute beast of a radio that can have up to 1 500 clients connected to it at once so what i'm going to do is i live in a brand new estate where houses are being built right now so i'm going to provide with this some free wi-fi for people to connect to because obviously people might not have got their broadband moved over to their new house yet so let's get the ladders out and install this on the roof just quickly looking around this access point you can see that there's a screen on here i think this is going to display things like how many people are connected the current ip address so on and so forth we've got a one gig port over here and then because this access point can support so many clients we've actually got a 10 gig port on this side which is pretty insane two okay okay going up now [Music] for launch okay so this is the access point that was already here that i'm going to replace this is one of ubiquity's outdoor access points it's a pretty good access point what we're doing right now with this one is uh definitely overkill so i'm going to take this one off and then put this one on look at this there's a little spider hiding in here i'm not a fan of spiders but he's pretty cute and now i wonder if underneath our little screen is on yeah it's on look it says unify sdn and it's picked up an ip address 192.168.55.76 looks the business i mean it should do for one and a half thousand pounds i hope that i'm going to get signal all the way down there okay so guys what a video this has been and what a nice calm day to end it on we've got the bass station xg on the roof what i want to do is walk all the way down this road and see how far we can push it see how far i can stay connected so follow me okay so you can see at the moment i've actually got two out of three bars and we're quite close to the house what i'm expecting to happen is as we get a little bit further away this should jump to three bars and then go down i think we're a little bit too close for what's going on with this access point because it's a beast literally just as i said that it goes to three and we're walking away from the house okay i'm gonna stop here and we'll do a speed test okay so nine ping and okay we're maxing out about 100 megabits a second and uh yeah we're pretty close to the house i think we can keep going okay so i've got one bar to the access point i physically can't see it oh it's just jumped to two i physically can't see my house there's a physical house in between us and my house and we're about one two three four five six seven houses away from my house which is pretty mental so let's see if we can do a speed test if this even gets a result it's getting 70 meg and i'm eight houses away at least that's unreal so what a place to end this video on literally a hundred meg of wifi eight houses away from my house if that doesn't speak volumes i don't know what does if you guys have got any questions the comment section is the place and as always if you've enjoyed this video please hit us up with a like rating because it helps more than you would think but for now my name has been alex this has been techflow and we'll see you in the next one peace

Channel: TechFlow

Views: 324,461

Rating: 4.7351465 out of 5

Keywords: Technology, techflow, Marzbar review, techflow review, 2021 home network, poe, unifi, ubiquiti, network attached storage, networking, unifi setup, ubiquiti home network, home network security, ethernet, home network, home network setup, access point, network rack, ubiquiti unifi, home networking, home network tour, home network upgrade 2021, home network upgrade

Id: 39ubXp6peqQ

Length: 18min 26sec (1106 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 13 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/n3rding]

He’s pretty annoying, I’ve seen him before, he has a few YouTube channels. But he managed to get decent distributed internet to his neighbourhood at a young age and probably earns a lot more than most of us.. so pretty accomplished

[u/ArachnidDifferent814]

The thumbnail alone makes me want punch down more than an 88block

[u/Jswee1]

It's the way he crimps cables for me.

[u/allanl2k1]

Well in the first minute he explained the USP RPS wrong but he got a nice set up for sure.